“In Rawajati Sub-district, South Jakarta, seven RT are experiencing flooding with water levels ranging from 50 to 260 centimeters, due to the overflow of the Ciliwung River,” said Isnawa Adji, Head of ...

Flood control solutions are expensive, but the cost of inaction is far greater. Jakarta has faced large-scale severe floodingrepeatedly over the past three decades, most recently in 2020. The 2007 ...

The rainfall at the start of 2020 was one of the most extreme events ... Plans to improve Jakarta's flood defenses include building two dams and works on the city's biggest river.

Various land and drone shots showing flooded streets and neighbourhoods of Jakarta. Video credit: Ilham Apriyanto ...

an archipelago of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains. Associated Press writer Edna Tarigan in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this ...

Indonesian authorities are turning to the technique of cloud seeding to try to stop more rain falling in the flood-hit capital Jakarta. Planes have been sent to inject chemicals into clouds in an ...

Indonesian rescuers have recovered 10 bodies that were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks that ...

said that several problems in Jakarta, ranging from extreme disparities to floods, are caused by spatial injustice. "Everything we feel today is the accumulation of spatial injustice," said Ridwan ...

So it shouldn't be a surprise that flooding is frequent in Jakarta and, according to experts, it is getting worse. But it's not just about freak floods, this massive city is literally disappearing ...

Heavy rains in Jakarta, Indonesia have produced the worst flooding in the city since 2007, which according to Reuters has left an estimated 18,000 people displaced from their homes in addition to ...

A new study from the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals that the value of mangroves have risen dramatically in ...